{"id":186,"date":"2007-09-18T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/09\/reparations.html"},"modified":"2007-09-18T13:01:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T13:01:42","slug":"reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/09\/reparations.html","title":{"rendered":"Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"

This caught my eye, over at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex:<\/a><\/p>\n

In Transylvania and throughout Romania, Catholics who lost more than 2,000\u00a0churches to the Russian Orthodox church after the Second World War\u00a0when the Russians banned Catholicism now want their churches back<\/font><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0In most cases, the Orthodox church had said no, so\u00a0Catholics have had to set up chapels in local villages, using borrowed rooms, basements, schools and even open fields to hold Mass.\u00a0 The Orthodox Church is\u00a0a powerful force in today\u2019s Romania and as a result, a total of 2,200 Catholic properties remained in Orthodox hands and\u00a0court actions by Catholics to recover\u00a0the properies, including houses and land, has been met with very\u00a0limited success.
\nIn\u00a0January, Romania was admitted to the European Union after promising to respect the rule of law and consequently some\u00a0properties have been returned to\u00a0Catholics\u00a0which now have the Orthodox up in arms, resisting with anger towards the Catholics and vice-versa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This caught my eye, over at Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex: In Transylvania and throughout Romania, Catholics who lost more than 2,000\u00a0churches to the Russian Orthodox church after the Second World War\u00a0when the Russians banned Catholicism now want their churches back.\u00a0\u00a0In most cases, the Orthodox church had said no, so\u00a0Catholics have had to set up chapels in local villages,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"yoast_head":"\nReparations - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/09\/reparations.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reparations - 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